Wednesday, February 07, 2007

rule of three

Ok, ok. So last year I may have said I’ll never take up a tag or something like that. But with the single hope of resuscitating my blog, I’ve decided to do this one. Shyam, since you tagged me and since I’m obliging how about baking me a cake for the next time we meet? (I haven't spell checked this. So please excuse any errors.) (And I have no idea why I chose this picture)

Three things that scare me:1. Strange men in bowler hats and three piece suits who address me as ‘sister’ and ask me if I’m a believer. (Avoid the Starbucks outside Victoria station at all costs) 2. Tripping and breaking my teeth3. The green fuzzy thing that looks like a tennis ball and used to be a chow chow in the back of my fridge. Yesterday, I swear it grinned at me.

Three things I love:1. My shoes2. My stuffed mouse (a toy, but real in every other sense)3. My quilt

Three things I hate:1. Cockroaches2. The cold3. Washing up (the dishes, not myself. I have scrupulous personal hygiene standards)

Three things I don’t understand:1. Bond trading (and this is after my husband explained it to me for half an hour in the tone he usually reserves for goofy dogs)2. Scottish accents. Have you been to Edinburgh?3. Some of the ‘art’ installations at the Tate

Three things on my desk (at home):1. My cell phone2. A bowl of fruit 3. The Sunday Review from last Sunday currently moonlighting as a mousepad

Three things I’m doing right now:1. This tag2. Trying to finish a short story 3. Scratching my back

Three things I want to do before I die:1. Get published2. Get published 3. Get published

Three things I can do:1. Talk. A lot. 2. Proof read menus in restaurants3. Read maps.

Three things you should listen to:1. Your mother’s advice. 2. Anything on BBC radio 4.3. Seu George

Three things you should never listen to:1. E! News. 2. The voice in your head when you’re four drinks down3. Those people with tiny stereos who stand on the side of the road claiming non believers will burn in hell.

Three things I’d like to learn:1. Origami. Then I could make myself paper pets who’d never need to be fed or walked. 2. The lyrics to the Macarena. I already have the moves.3. How to do a cartwheel.

There was a time I used to take away menu cards from Restaurants and ended up with quite a collection. Favourite was the one from Koshys in Bangalore (hwere P Chidambaram broke his toe recently while trying to avoid Papparazzi)